Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-23

ell arrangements they saw tit looking TO
the operation of the Fort Worth and
| Denver, the Denver, Texas and Fort
. Worth and the Denver, Texas aud Gulf
under one management SIS harmonious
whole IN one common interest,
the length Of the combined lines
being SOC miles. Tue stOckhOld-
eTs also authorized the increase of
the capital stock $50, coo, 600, making the
total capital $50, 600, 600, the directors te
Issue said additional stock SIS they saw
tit and proper. Chief Engineer Bissell
vas seen and in answer to q question
about the progress Of the work, gave the
following facts: Yhe track is laid
to q point 2G6 miles northwest
OF Fort Worth, last week eight
and q half miles of track being laid
and the boarding tran being moved. The
grading force has covered ell the line
across the S1aked Plaias, formerly called
the Great American desert, now known
to be a rich, black loan, superior 20 the
western reserve of Ohio or the famous
valley Of the Nile. In 4 few days the
graders will cover the country as far a.
the Canadian river At Quanah
the company has 1000 ties with
spikes, bolts, fastenings, etc, for
sixty miles of track. Thirty
five miles of stee. Is now on the ground
ready to be laid, while four sChOoners
loaded with HOO tons of steel are in har-
Dor at Galveston and 1900 tons are af)at
on the ocean from New York. Mr.. Bis
sell places the DAY of completion CT the
road at April l, and possibly earlier. By
February he expects to have the track
TO the state line. lie could
not say how rapidly work
was progressing from Trinidad this way,
but one and onc-half to one and three
quarter miles of track was going down
daily on the Fort Worth extension.
Mr.. Zurn, ticket agent at the city of.
fees Of the Missouri Pacific and Texas
and Pacific, had Queer experience last
night with a gentleman who de-
sired 10 purchase ticket
to Fort Wayne, Ind. The rate sheets OF
the companies are Of considerable di-
mensions and are covered with columns
of figures. 1t Is difficult to follow the
lines of figures giving the prices of tick
cts TO different points with the eye only
and avoid mistakes, go Mr.. Iurn
placed fourteen-inch rule on
the page of the rate sheet
from Fort Worth in the left hand margin
and running to the column in which Fort
Wayne was printed The Indiana man
looked al Mr.. ZuTn with amazsE2ent and
then at that ruler with the inches marked
on it. The mJn's eyes were as large
as sauCers, the COLD perspirstion
stood out in great big beads
on mis- forehead, he cIutchee
his galise handle fIantiCallY and, brScing
himself, remarked: "Grest God, man,
YOU DIDN'T propose to charge me by
the inch, do your" Mr.. Zurn was thun- |
derstruck, and looked at the man as if he !
expected to have his gaze met
by the glare of msdmsn. !
"What do you mean?" said Zurn !
"Why l expe cted to pay By the mile, but I
see you figuring it by the inch," an
swered the Indianisn MI. Zurn saw the |.
point, explained what he was using the
ruler tor, and the Indiana man who /
wanted to get home to Fort Wayne, went
out and bought good CigGr and tried to /.
bride the ticket agent TO say nothing (
about il by presenting him with that
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